You cant Learn Unless You Make Mistakes!

Good morning guys and welcome to today's video. It's been raining for two days straight. Yep two days that's okay. It has to rain sometime but that's it. Yesterday was the last of the warm days. It's still not going to be like like snowy winter. It's just going to be a lot cooler. Good morning Miss Anya. This morning when I was not ready to come out yet she came in the house and sat with me because she was outside the door crying. Whoops you're gonna trip me. So yep I And she just wanted to be back outside, but she sat with me for a long time, and I was petting her. I feel like she needs a friend. She needs another cat down here, because the other two have each other, and they fight at night sometimes now. I feel like she's lonely, and she needs somebody. Do you need a friend? Welcome to the start of the dark and the dreary days. Even though I love this time of the year, I hate the dark. I hate the dreary. Oh my goodness, what's happening in here? Looks like you made a nest. You made a happy nice nest and then you pooped everywhere. Hi babies. Don't you bite me. She bites. That is not kind. She's my biting goat. Never would have thought it when I got her. She was such a kind cute little thing. Done chores. It's over for the morning. Look at mama and baby. Look at how cute they are. Winston's like what do you mean look at mama and baby. He throws a huge fit. He literally grabs the camera like he throws a fit. Grabs my camera. Uh, cord, and tries to yank it out of my hand because he doesn't want anybody to pay attention to anybody but him. Mmm, I smell like a fire, but it smells like charcoal. I don't know, it smells good, whatever it is. But anyway, spice this week, Sam is sad. I need to put the plastic out there for those goats, and yeah, hasn't done it yet, but I understand. He might have to do it today in the rain, though. Or at least tomorrow, because it is going to get cold this week. It's going to be cold and wet, and I don't want anybody getting sick. Are you guys friends? They don't even share a stall. I can tell you that Toffee is not friends with anybody. She's not true friends with anybody. She's a faker. She's a user. She is your friend if she wants something. But then once that's over, like, she's very fickle. She's not loyal ever. I think maybe this goat is in heat. I just say that all the time, so if he makes fun of me, but I can't tell. It's hard to tell. Look, told ya. See, she's in heat. See, he hasn't been doing this to her at all. Yep, she's in heat, so she's going to get bred today. That's crazy. I had no idea she was not bred. Sylvia always makes fun of me and says, like, you don't know, you don't know. Oh, he's right over there trying to get her from underneath the thing. So she's definitely got some kind of hormones going on. You can literally... Tell when they start humping other goats and start being super affectionate. Anyway, we're going to go do our Saturday shopping and come back and breed this goat. Look at the leaves. Holy moly. Hello. So problem in the chicken coop. This little black and white girl went missing last night. I know it's because I've been keeping them in trying to control where she lays her eggs. She's the worst chicken. Literally the worst chicken. So if I try and control where she lays, she hides. She's awful. Sam loves her. She's so frustrating. So she went missing last night and I know it's because she went late to lay an egg because she didn't lay it in the coop. I've been keeping them in until they lay eggs. She didn't lay it by one so I let her out. And then she must have went to lay an egg. There's a nest. I know there's a nest. And anyway, we couldn't find her at night. She ended up staying out all night. It was awful. Sam came out this morning, found her. She was there. So she just earned these guys a forever winter time inside. So they'll be in here and then they'll go out the back door. So I have to go check it today and make sure it's animal proof. But Sam... Fixed up the area outside in the back so they can go in and out out there. But they aren't going to be free range anymore because it was scary. So I spent the afternoon, the rainy afternoon, with my glue gun. And this is the tree. Doesn't look the way that I wanted it to look. But I don't care. I'm going to hang it in my playroom and use it for like my grandkids when they're here. It'll be cute. And then, wait a minute, I can't get these stupid lights to go off. There. And then I added some more decorations on here. I had all these bows and I just attached them to the tree. So I spent the afternoon doing that. Sam made one of my favorite dinners. Wait, I'm going to show you. Sophie loves it. I love it. Sam loves it. Sam's mom makes it. It's sausage and peppers in tomato sauce and you put it on a bun. So there's a bun. Come on. Every time we make this, we made this for our party though, and everybody loved it. But look, oh fun, do the peppers. Oh my gosh, the peppers are so big. I like my vegetables cut tiny. Yeah, I cut them big this time. Yeah, that's what it looks like. And you put it on a bun like this. Watch, I'll show you. It is yummy. It's literally been this dark and this rainy all day. I thought you guys were going to get hay. I don't see any hay. Oh, you put the lid down? So it doesn't get rained on. Good call. Sylvia has been driving like crazy everywhere she wants. Everywhere we got to go, she drives. Hey, do you want to go do the goats now? Because we have to breed one. All right, let me just do the chickens. I actually love this weather. I love when it starts to get cold and cozy. I love that, but it's not good for videoing. Two orange cats ran out in front of us today. And a chipmunk. Two orange cats and a chipmunk ran out in front of you? How do you feel? I feel good. Hey. Oh, he's not going to attack me. Sometimes they get hay in their water and I have to come and clean it out. Where's the white chicken? Uh-oh. Right there. And I gave him food yesterday, so. You know, I'm just dying for that little tiny thing to lay eggs. That's going to be a dream for me. You're the troublemaker. She's like, I'm not a troublemaker. Watch, as I go to leave, that's when he'll come to get me, but I just have to stare at him. I drive in the middle because there's a car coming. Do you get headaches when you're driving? Only if the road is really bumpy and it's steep. Because you guys know Sophie fell on her head and now gets headaches. Years later, like three, four years later. Has it been four years? She was 13, right? Four years ago. Yeah, and she still gets headaches all the time. I guess you would classify them as migraines. Because even putting her head on a soft pillow kills her. Oh my god, last night was terrible. Why? I couldn't put my head down. Yeah. Imagine, like, not even being able to lay down to sleep. My pillow. Well, let's go pick one. You have to... We're going to Walmart tomorrow, so you can pick one. Ooh, look how bright that is. Oh my goodness. Watch him. He gets so excited when he sees us. Sometimes he goes running and bucking. But he just let out a big scream. Watch, he's going to come to me. Aww. Pet him. He doesn't even stink. He's just a cute little baby. You know why? It's because I give him treats. I give him treats, too. We let him in for dinner. That's his favorite. Anyways, I have been watching, like, all these goat shows lately, and I think we should bring everybody to Dash, because Dash is going to... Well, everyone's basically too ready. I know. I really want to show again. It depends on what we get. You can tell when somebody's in heat. Who is it? Oh, trust me. Who is it? I think it's... I think it's Toffee. Or... Hazel. Come on, Piggy. Aww. What's that, being mean? They're gonna make their bed tonight for sure. It's cold. She does look rough. I make their bed every day, but it's really important today. What did Dad say? Dad drove over the curb today. And he yelled at me when I did it. I know, and that's what Gabby said. Oh, you yelled at... Oh, look it. It's Hazel. I wonder if Hazel's in heat, too. They all stand there. That's their favorite part. I know, but for sure, when he seems like she's in heat. I was watching her, and she seemed like she was in heat, and then Winston started humping her. He always does. No, he never does. Oh, and... Yeah, he loves his sister. I don't know. Look how cute he is. They can't go. Look how cute he is. He's a boy. He's a brat. But he's so cute. He is. Now that he has like the bright exact minerals, he looks so cute. He's darkened up so much. If only you didn't have these. Yeah. If you didn't have those, everything would be good. Everything is fine. I feel like. We're not going to have any babies this year because I can't. Breeding goats is awful like you breed them you think oh they must be pregnant everything is good they have all the right nutrition they have everything they need to have babies everything looks like it's been done and then weeks later they're at the at their somewhere flagging their tail and acting like they're in heat and then the boys are peeing everywhere like I don't know man it's really hard to tell like. They need like their nose to turn green or something when it's time to be bred. You think you got your license on Wednesday? I thought it was Tuesday. Anyway, it's only been three or four days. Yeah, I'm bringing hay and water. Three or four days and she said that she feels really confident driving now. Like she isn't somebody who freaks out or like gets super emotional. Both of my kids got that from Sam. Both of the girls got that from Sam. And then my boys got super emotional. For me. Anyways, the girls are both like chill, pretty chill and it helps when you're driving. It helps to not feel things so strongly. All right, see if I can get everybody some hay here. We're going through hay like crazy now. That's, you don't realize in the middle of summer how lucky you have it until suddenly you're going through hay like crazy. My babies. Oh shoot. I wanted to bring a treat down for Rosie. I mean Lola actually doesn't look as I mean she's not fat like her body she's not fat she just looks normal. No like from the side Sylvie she looks fine like her her hips and her and her legs and her butt all look normal in fact she looks like she's lost weight. I don't know man she looks okay. Come here Oak come here. There we go. I know the geese are really loud and really annoying and it's unfortunate when you're vlogging but Sylvie and I really like them. We like having them. What we really like are baby geese. If you get a baby goose and you raise it like you hatch it in the incubator and you raise it yourself they are they love you. You guys have seen before we've had geese that have climbed onto our lap and and cuddled with us and So that's our ultimate plan. That little incubator is going to be going for months because we have these eggs now that are going to be hatching like on November 26th, I think, 26th and 27th. And then we have February is when the geese eggs are going to start. Waxon is on a mission. Goose acts like he's on a mission. Waxon, I know, they're both adorable. I love Rosie. I think she's adorable. Would we ever sell Goose, Lucifer? We would never sell Lucifer? As long as he doesn't attack me, he's fine. Alright. Almost every big mistake that I've made on our farm has been about re-homing babies or separating animals that are bonded. It kills me every single time. Like we've made a lot of mistakes. A lot of them you guys don't even know or maybe they're mistakes that I just feel like are mistakes. They're all things that all farmers do but they're things that don't feel good after I've done them. Like you can't learn unless you make a mistake. That's good parenting right there. There, I did my job you guys. You can't learn unless you make mistakes, but mistakes for me are like when Blossom had her babies and we took them away because she had mastitis. It was almost better but she had one bad teeth and we were terrified of them getting sick and they could have got sick and that would not have been good. I'll always remember that look on her face when she didn't get her babies like that was awful and then also her getting mastitis was something that I feel responsible for. Come on, get eating, eat, eat, eat. You need to eat. We need to get this light fixed. I've been to the dollar store 15 times and keep forgetting to get new lights. Or like selling all the babies and having a goat be alone after. Like it's so hard. Like Toffee has her own baby and we'll keep that baby because I love her. We'll keep her forever and they'll always be close. Even if we never keep another Toffee baby for the history of this world, she'll always have a friend in her baby in Gemma. And just like how we kept two of her babies and then she'll always have them because she's like a low man on the totem pole. She's at the bottom of the herd and having those babies will always be like her own little herd and it will always give her confidence and she'll always have her own group no matter what. So that was a huge lesson to us. And I think like most farmers or a lot of farmers, that's not how they run it. They run it by keeping just the best babies and... Sylvie and I both want our goats to have love. Love is love is what it where it's at you guys. Hi Hi, little miss maple. He's really cute. Yeah, she's cute. I hate those ears though. Where did she get those airplane ears? Oh no, no one in the Virgin Islands have them Look at this. I just pulled it out of Oakley's Please. That was on the head earlier. Today it's a scurs It's like, and it's so hard too. So yesterday she came in with a bloody head. This is, she's been disbudded, but with hormones, sometimes their horns will grow back just the tiniest little bit. And we noticed that she was like headbutting a lot yesterday and her horn was bloody. And now I just pulled it out of her poo bowl. I like that. You can actually cut those off. So now she's missing a scurs. I would just let them fall off by themselves. They don't fall off, though, unless they, like, have an injury. All right, Sophie says it's an Oreo day. She had really nice babies. She had really nice babies last year with Oreo, so we're putting her with Oreo. Hey, it's your turn, big guy. Come on out. Winston, come on. Don't worry, he can't hurt you. Sorry. Maybe this is why she's not pregnant, because Oreo is not the... Come on. Go find yourself a woman. She doesn't seem bothered by him at all, though. Like, I don't know if this is her version of standing for him. She just doesn't seem like she cares that much. Well, that did not go. I don't know. He didn't breed her. She stood. Get in here. Come on. Get in. Dropped her head in shame. I'm actually excited to go and watch his show and crochet. So, Sylvie's, yeah, re-watching the whole Heartland series. No, not the ones that Netflix doesn't have. Oh. There's five seasons that I haven't watched. Oh. We watched them when they were little, though. Yeah, it only goes up to 15 on Netflix. There's 20 seasons of that? Yeah. I think the 20 is coming out. Holy heck. Yeah. Don't you know that you're beautiful? Just the way you are.